While a strong national tour, Waitress can’t compete with the perfection of its Broadway counterpart.

Waitress Jenna (Desi Oakley) is bored with her life and dreams of something more. When she becomes pregnant and meets her new doctor, Jim Pomatter (Bryan Fenkhart), her life is thrown upside down with an affair and lies taking over her life.

Both Oakley and Fenkhart start the show on stiff notes seemingly unable to figure out how they want to portray their characters. This causes them to miss their chemistry at the start. However, both actors grow in their roles during the show finding their footing by the end – Oakley shines on “She Used to Be Mine.”